Daniel's Schooling and so on...

I am here mainly to talk about Daniel’s schooling.


First off, he is officially a registered Certified Nurses Assistant (CNA). He got his certificate in the mail a while ago and I forgot to tell everyone.


Second, Daniel is going to be taking a Phlebotomy course at the beginning of April and that will look really good on his application when he applies to med school.


Third, Daniel has decided his major which is a huge relief for him. He has decided that Anthropology with Health Emphasis is what he would like to do. Most medical schools are now looking to accept people who have unique majors versus the typical Biology or Chemistry major. For those of you who don’t know, Anthropology is the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans. The University of Utah said the study of Anthropology with Health Emphasis is to teach the interactions between biological, environmental and social factors influencing health and illness; human adaptation and maladaptation from an evolutionary perspective and how systems of medical knowledge and health care vary across cultures.


Fourth, I have been researching med schools. There are a total of ten med schools in California. Two of which specialize in osteopathic medicine so that leaves eight medical schools that Daniel will be able to apply to in California. There are five different University of California medical schools UCDavis in Davis, UCSD in San Diego, UCLA in Los Angeles, UCSF in San Francisco and UCI in Irvine. Also, there is KECK University in Los Angeles, Loma Linda in Loma Linda and Stanford in Stanford. When the time comes he will apply to all eight of the California med schools and also to the U of U. We will most likely relocate to California for him to attend med school. I am slowly coming to grips with that idea, though leaving family is one thing that makes me sad to think about it. I was born in Cali and I absolutely love it. Half of my family still lives in California so it won’t be that hard of a move…I hope. My great grandma had two daughters Carol and Bonnie. Carol is my grandma and she along with her six children and their children and their children live in Utah. Then Bonnie and her five children and their children live in California. I consider them Aunts, Uncles and Cousins because that is pretty much how we were raised. Also, my Aunt Susie and her kids live in California. So, I would be moving to California still having family to see often if I needed too. I figure if Daniel can still get his bachelors degree in the time we figured we will be making the big move to California either at the beginning of January 2012 or the beginning of May 2012. We have planned for none of this to happen but it seems like it will be the right thing to do and so far it looks more and more like it will one day be a reality.


Fifth, almost everybody knew we were going to start trying to have a family at the end of 2010 but due to the change of events in our future we will have to postpone it a bit longer. We figured that it would be smart for us to wait and when the time is right we will know. So, we really don’t know when that will be but we are going to assume it is longer then we had been planning. We are good with all the changes that will come in the future and we can’t wait for what more exciting surprises are ahead of us.